Sustainability Grant Program

The Sustainability Office welcomes your ideas for funding relating to student-, faculty-, or staff-led sustainability projects that will improve sustainability on Mason's campuses. The Sustainability Grant Program will provide funding for awareness and action-oriented campaigns that are geared to reach the largest populations of students, staff, and faculty. They should be well-planned and should ideally tie to the broader goals of the Executive Steering Committee, Sustainability Council and the Working Groups. Grants can range in amount depending on the idea, but will depend on their range of impact on the university. They should support general campus goals of (not all-inclusive):

• Reduction of greenhouse gases (emissions)
• Reduction of waste or increase in recycling rates
• Reduction of water or energy usage
• Social and economic equity regionally and globally
• Integration of sustainability principles into curricular or extra-curricular activities
• Retention and/or reclaiming of open space
• Retention and conservation of native species
• Encouragement of sustainable food practices
• Encouragement of sustainability best practice sharing

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